Sean Whalen
Poems attentive to land, labor, memory, and the precise strangeness of rural life.
Poet based in rural Boone County, Iowa
Selected publications
A small selection of Sean’s work, linked to the journals and issues where it appeared.
Iowa Perspective
Read at Floating Acorn Review (opens in a new tab)At the Press Conference During the Fire
Open issue PDF (opens in a new tab)Edward, Pointing North, Teaches Me to Count Arriving Geese
Read at Canary (opens in a new tab)Hubris, Effigy Mounds National Monument
Read at Right Hand Pointing (opens in a new tab)4.99
Read at Stone Poetry Quarterly (opens in a new tab)Crow at Dawn
Read at Gyroscope Review (opens in a new tab)
About Sean
Sean Whalen lives near Pilot Mound in rural Boone County, Iowa. He holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from Iowa State University.
A retired health-and-safety professional and volunteer fire chief, he returned to writing after retirement following a nineteen-year hiatus.
- PLACE
- Rural Boone County, Iowa
- EDUCATION
- M.A., Creative Writing · Iowa State University
- WORK
- Retired health-and-safety professional
- COMMUNITY
- Volunteer fire chief
Work, 1997–present
Explore 103 documented works across journal publications, print records, forthcoming work, and the 2004 thesis Small ecologies.